The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-28
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITlES.
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Col A. G. Patton, of Columbus, o., has been
elected chairman of the general council for the
entertainment Of tie national 6. A. r. encamp-
ment.
John s. Swift. of Hartford, Conn. who was
recently found guilty of the murder of his wife,
was yesterday sentenced. by Judge Sanford, to
be hanged on April D, 1888.
The residence of F. L. Guy, a Canadian Pa
eifc conductor, at Winnipeg, burned on Monday
night, and Guy was cremated in his bed. His
wife is absent from the city, and Guy was living
alone.
Aivices from Rector Ark, report that a ter
rible ARRAY occurred there Monday night, n
which A. NJ. Boyce, marshal of Rector. was
killed, and w. III. Lovejoy mortally wounded.
man named Davis is also reported killed
Rand & Co.'s powder mill, at Pittsford, near
Rochester, n. Y, was blown ND. yesterday
morning. with terrific noise The workmen
were at breakfast at the time, and nobody
injured The loss OF property is considerable.
Robert E. Beecher and Isaac w. Hakes. of
the wrecked Continental Life Insurance Com
pany. of Hartford. Conn, against whom true
bills were found last week, gave bonds yester-
day. in the Superior Court, IN the sums OF So, 900
and s., OO0. respectively
The rear wall and large part Of the roof of
Perkinss warehouse, on the river 'front.' at
Cleveland, o.. fell in yesterday. Condit. Fuller
& Co. occupied the building, and iron piled
against the wall was the cause of the col
lapse. The loss was $50, 900.
Andrew Simler disappeared week ago from
home, Canton. o. Yesterday he found
knees Smler declared he had crawled into tho
hay NOW with the intention of lying there until
he frcze to death. The chances are that he will
die.
Or Christmas, two colored boys, aged six and
seven years, living on the Kelly place, in
Calumet, about eight miles south oe Louisiana,
No. were burned to death while playing too
close to a lighted brush pile. When discovered,
the bodies were a charred mass and almost be-
yond Identification.
On Christmas morning. as Peter Hoffman was
going to church. near Perryville, Mo- he found
In wheat field, the church. frozen stiff
and dead, Joseph Faivre, an old citizen of Perry
county, aged about eighty years. He left home
on last Tuesday morning for church, and, it is
supposed, was caught In the storm of that day.
Mrs. NJ a. Snowden. president of the Charles
ton, S. c., Confederate Home. has received a
check for 81, 900 from Mr. W. W. Corcoran, the
venerable philanthropist, of Washington, as a
Christmas gift to the institute. The money
will be used for the permanent endowment of a
Corcoran scholarship in the Confederate Home
school.
fatally shot, Monday night, near Delaware. o..
by Dock Corbin aged eighteen Young Corbin
heard noise in his fathers chicken roost and
going out with gun what he supposed was
an animal leaving the roost He discharged both
barrels of the gun. and then discovered that he
had shot man. Both shots took effect in New
masters head and neck.
Harry Gauer, an employe OF tho Detroit
Omnibus Company, upon returning home yes
terday afternoon, after absence OF eighteen
hours, found the body of his wife stretched
the floor. apparently lfeless. From bullet
brains. revolver which Gauer says belongs
to him. was found on the floor near the body
Mrs. Gauer cannot recover. Gauer was locked
up to await the result of the coroner's inquest